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What a great meeting we had. Bryce was our gracious host, and we always have a blast at his place. A couple of highlights that caught my attention. Dan had a couple of new really awesome looking ships, along with his incredible mother ship. Cody (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| | Re: House on the Oasis
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Hi Melody, This is outstanding! I particularly like the outside fence design with the interspersed bricks and tiles. The interior detail is amazing, with lots of great furniture solutions. I'll be coming back again and again for ideas. Bruce (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: June meeting pool MOCs contest ideas
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FLOATATION CONTEST Objective: Be the last MOC floating. Construction Rules 1. Vessel must be constructed purely from Lego parts. No clone bricks. No modified parts. 2. Certain Lego parts which have been specifically designed to float are not (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: Jawa Sandcrawler Set #10144
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(...) SNIP OOTEENEE!!! JawaJeff (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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| | Boeing 727 sets
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I have three different versions of this set, and am wondering if there are any more? I have the Boeing 727 (698), the Lufthansa promotional (1560) and the Sterling promtional 727 (1552). Are there any others? (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Jawa Sandcrawler Set #10144
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(...) cool! just when i've had my fill of sidewalk sets "star destroyers", they come out with this awsome brownstone / highrise set. gotta love starwars parts packs! ondrew p.s. i'll be selling the figs at brickfest. (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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| | Re: Me, Myself, and The Brick
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(...) <snip> It'll be a hoot! :-D (sittin'...starin' at modules...thinking of space display goodness....) Trev (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | Re: Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones
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(...) Geoff Lilleker also has some speculation about Lego purchasing the rights from Kiddicraft. Seems a little less biased but I'm not sure what is true. Select Kiddicraft or Lego from this page: (URL) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] June Monthly Dinner!
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(...) I just found the place to be at for my birthday! Thanks guys. Keith (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Vintage Lego Commercials Online!
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(...) I had some extra time at work on Friday. Yeah, that's my excuse. :) Since your movies are in quicktime I used quicktime viewer's "copy" feature to capture screenshots. Then I pasted and cropped each screenshot using a simple image viewer and (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones
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(...) Gary: This court case was remarkable for GKCs testimony that the original Lego block was in fact a copy of the Kiddicraft block. There is a summary (which is VERY biased) on the Best-Lock site: (URL) the expiration of Lego's major patents they (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: More esoteric Lego history
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(...) Yeah, every new fact I uncover raises many new questions, my head may explode eventually. I originally thought that both sisters were older than KKK but Dave has sent me a high-resolution copy of the image above and it is clear that one sister (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Samsonite 118 Train set
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(...) Ben, thanks for the correction. So, FAO Schwarz marketed the 116 in 1968 and Sears marketed the 118 in 1969. There may have been other retailers too but at least we know about those two. Eric (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: More esoteric Lego history
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(...) That particular picture came from a 700/4, however that same picture was featured on 700/0, 700/1, 700/3, 700/3a, 700/4, and 700/5 (and supplementary sets too). There are Mursten, Bausteine, and System varieties depending on the year of (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Blocking SetUserDisplay?
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(...) Neither of these work, although the second one does introduce a temporary for everything except for the 0 part. It will result in the display sometimes showing a value of zero. NQC tries really hard to use as few variables as it can so you (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: The pseudo-intellectual ramblings of a cool-guy wanna-be.
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(...) Even though I'm from a different continent I can relate to much of what you're describing here, although the end result was somewhat different... I can definately remember weekend cartoons (Transformers, GI Joe, MASK, inspector Gadget etc (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Technic Designers?
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Mark Neumann wrote: SNIP good points (...) I absolutely agree. the Technic basic sets of yesteryear were GREAT for this type of bulk, open-ended creativity. For me, these 3 sets are my technic designer sets: (3 URLs) The yellow (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Blocking SetUserDisplay?
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(...) Thanks for the ideas! Actually these yielded some interesting results: a = 0 + ((x * 100) + y); occasionally yielded 0 (as expected), but never yielded anything other than 0 and the correct value (that I saw). a = ((x * 100) + y); and a = (x * (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: The pseudo-intellectual ramblings of a cool-guy wanna-be.
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(...) Wow. What a great post (I mainly say this because you linked to Mr.Ham). Warning: Rambling About to Commense I think a better title might have been "The Art of LEGO: A New Perspective" - that usually when we think of the 'Art of LEGO' - we (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego City Airport at Myer
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(...) No, I think I gave them too much credit for appreciating the retail pricing of Lego sets. (...) I wouldn't pay 19cpp if I had a reasonable expectation of being able to pay 17cpp for the same parts in the near future. I don't recall many lego (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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